With a silken flow and a keen eye for the realities of 18th century women, Center Stage’s production of Pride and Prejudice is froth with substance.
Archives for September 2015
Phoebe in Winter at Single Carrot (review)
Power. Chaos. Family Loss. Race. War. Colonialism. Gender. These are themes playwright Jen Silverman has packed into her dense and powerful work, Phoebe in Winter. There is something both muscular and very poetic about the terse language and situations that constantly shift the “truth.” You have to be willing to wade in deeply with her […]
The Point at Arcturus Theater Company (review)
Nancy Reagan famously referred to her husband’s lengthy bout with Alzheimer’s disease at “the long goodbye” – a prolonged and painful process of shedding the various levels of one’s memories, one’s very identity as a person.
Princess Margaret at Thelma Theatre (review)
Princess Margaret, by Patricia Connelly, is an emotionally charged journey into the life of a poor young girl in the late 1960s. Eleven-year-old Margaret (Allison Frisch) is caught stealing milk from a small Catholic parochial school in Upstate New York in 1969. Instead of calling the police, the kindly nun Sister Anastasia (Elizabeth Bruce) suggests […]
UpClose: Julia Starr, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Julia Starr’s new play, The Long Way Around, debuts October 9, 2015 at the Highwood Theatre.
Spring Awakening Review: signing and singing, celebrating sexuality
The Deaf West production of Spring Awakening at the Brooks Atkinson tangibly enhances an acclaimed musical about rebellious and repressed adolescents. By cleverly pairing deaf actors who are signing with hearing actors who are singing, Deaf West has made the show the most accessible on Broadway, but also forged it into something theatrically exceptional.
Stage Briefs: Awards to GALA and Julie Taymor, costume sales, and Cultural DC calls for submissions
A roundup of some of this week’s theatrical news and notes from GALA, Shakespeare Theatre, Washington National Opera, Center Stage, and Cultural DC.
UpClose: Leslie Kobylinski, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
First Draft will be conducting four readings of Leslie Kobylinski’s new play, Stolen Beauty, beginning at the Arts Club on October 6, 2015.
Mary Hall Surface on the theatrical world of baby plays
Imagine creating theatre for an audience that has never seen a play before; that responds freely and fully to the unfolding story, sounds, and images; that hops, spins, and jumps on stage when invited to join in; that takes in the world with total wonder.
Kate Eastwood Norris, appearing in Animal at Studio Theatre
“I still can’t wear shoes,” Kate Eastwood Norris said to me as she indicated her flip-flops during our elevator trip up to one of the higher floors at Studio Theatre, where she is rehearsing Animal. She was telling me about her particularly rough summer. After a moonlight boat-ride the evening she had arrived at a […]
UpClose: Audrey Cefaly, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Audrey Cefaly has written and is directing her new play Maytag Virgin, which opens at Quotidian Theatre Company on October 2, 2015.
Sherri L. Edelen – ready for the Cake Off battle
It was back in 1949 that the Pillsbury Company held its first annual Pillsbury Bake-Off competition, awarding $50,000 for the contest’s best recipe, which in its first year was No-Knead Water-Rising Twists.